You shipped an agent. It is running in production. Now comes the harder question: What should you optimize first, and how do you move from recurring behaviors in your traces to better instructions, tools, skills, and model choices? Let's ask the experts.
Join us live to get a demo of the capabilities then engage with the experts in a Q&A. Bring your questions – post them in Discord ahead of time or ask them during the session.
Save the date: 1:30-2:00pm ET, Sep 25, 2026
Join the Discord: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/discord
Join the AMA live: https://aka.ms/FoundryFriday-Optimizer-Insights
You shipped an agent. It is running in production. Now comes the harder question: What should you optimize first, and how do you move from recurring behaviors in your traces to better instructions, tools, skills, and model choices?
That is exactly what we will explore in this week’s Foundry Friday Ask Me Anything (AMA) - let's talk about how insights in Foundry and agent optimizer can help you move from production signals to practical improvements. Join us as we talk to Charles Kim, the Product Lead for these features at Core AI. See a live demo, bring your own agent optimization questions, and get answers and actionable advice from the people who build the product.
Start with the patterns hiding in your traces ..
Insights in Foundry analyzes traces from production agents and organizes recurring behaviors into reviewable insights. Instead of combing through isolated runs, you can examine representative traces, see which agent versions are affected, explore likely causes, and identify recommended next actions. That changes the developer question from “What happened in this trace?” to “What keeps happening across my agents at scale, and what should I improve next?”
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Then turn those findings into better agent configurations
Agent optimizer in Foundry Agent Service helps you improve prompt agents and hosted agents by automatically evaluating their behavior and generating stronger configurations. It can refine instructions, skills, tool descriptions, and model selections, so you can spend less time manually tuning prompts and more time building the experience that makes your agent useful.
Together, insights and optimization create a practical loop: observe how your agent behaves in the real world, identify recurring opportunities, make targeted improvements, and evaluate again.
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Want to see that loop in action? Join us for the Foundry Friday AMA.
If you are wondering how these capabilities fit into your own development workflow, or what they can reveal about an agent already in production, bring that question to the people building them. The team behind the insights in Foundry and agent optimizer in Foundry Agent Service will join us for a live AMA on the Microsoft Foundry Discord. Join us live to get a demo of the capabilities then engage with the experts in a Q&A. Bring your questions – post them in Discord ahead of time or ask them during the session.
Save the date: 1:30-2:00pm ET, Sep 25, 2026
Join the Discord: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/discord
Join the AMA live: https://aka.ms/FoundryFriday-Optimizer-Insights
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